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Grenade-Shaped Bottle Causes Scare Downtown

Part of the 48 hand grenades seized by police in the municipality of Jamundi, are displayed at a press conference, in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on October 28, 2011. According to authorities, these hand grenades were to be used during the regional elections to be held this October 30 in Colombia, in which 32 governors and 1103 mayors and departmental assemblies and municipal councils shall be elected. AFP PHOTO/Luis ROBAYO

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SEATTLE (AP) — The suspicious item that caused a bomb scared Monday evening in downtown Seattle turned out to be a men’s cologne bottle in the shape of a hand grenade.

A witness who saw a man dropping the bottle in a trash bin called police, and the bomb squad responded. A street was closed until investigators determined the bottle was harmless.